Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Try it at Alta Vista. I tried to put together a paragraph to tell local immigrants of Delgado's ESL coursework. When I wrote that Delgado offers ESL to people of all languages, I translated it to something more like Delgado proposes to you in many languages. Hey, an proposition is an offer, but what a difference. At 04:58 PM 12/1/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Reminds me of a (probably apocryphal) story of how a >computer translated the biblical verse "the spirit is willing >but the flesh is weak", from English, to Russian back to >English: "the wine is good but the meat is mediocre". > >:-) > >- Phong > >Marc Attinasi wrote: > > > > Wow, that is bad! I like this part especially (makes no sense to me) > > > > "long-time collectors know this, that it itself here around one > > expressed scarce equipment object acts - that so well like no longer > > available;" > > > > I wonder what would happen if it was translated back to Austrian :-) > > > > - marc > > > > On Saturday, November 30, 2002, at 06:19 PM, Henry Ting wrote: > > > > > > > > Follow this link > > > :http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/ > > > ebayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=742570767&indexURL=1&photoDisplayType=2#eba > > > ylargephotohosting > > > ... >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html